Girlfriend is the lead single from Canadian pop rock star Avril Lavigne’s third album, The Best Damn Thing. It was produced by Lukasz Gottwald and has brought out the best of all of Lavigne’s songs in the US reaching number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the UK it reached number two and was number one for 6 weeks in Australia.

The song is about Lavigne’s crush on a guy who currently has a girlfriend. It features the 1980s pop-punk influence and sounds like Lavigne’s previous songs. He did it so well that it has been translated into seven different languages; French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish. He has appeared in many things, such as the video game Burnout Dominator and Burnout Paradise. Girlfriend also appeared in the trailers for the Bratz live-action film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Bring It On: In It to Win It.

The music video for Girlfriend was directed by The Malloys and filmed in Norwalk, California at Golf ‘n’ Stuff. Lavigne plays two girls, an innocent girl with glasses and red hair, and an evil girl with black hair. The black-haired girl repeatedly tries to outdo the red-haired girl and conquer a man, played by American model Bryan McMullin. She eventually hits the redhead with a golf ball, knocking her into the water and stealing the boy’s heart.

Lavigne’s hit song was met with some controversy when the Rubinoos filed a lawsuit against Lavigne saying she copied their 1979 single “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.” In January 2008, the lawsuit was settled and it was decided that the similarities between the two songs were due to “certain common and widely used lyrics”, and that they “fully exonerate Avril and Luke from wrongdoing of any kind in connection with the claims.” done [in the] lawsuit.”

Lavigne told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this about Girlfriend’s lawsuit: “You have to understand that this kind of thing happens to people all the time, especially when they have a big hit song. And it’s happened to me before with other songs. songs; it just didn’t go public. That’s what people do, it’s like whatever, it’s not a big deal. Everybody made it a big deal because it went public. It was never a big deal to me.”